Summary

Rich Internet Applications open a can of "user interfaces for all"
issues. In India we have a large number of people ( 1 billion) who may be
identified as print-impaired. I.e., people who can see but cannot
easily make sense of the words/text

w3.org’s WAI-ARIA recommendations help address some of the
accessibility concerns, provided appropriate screen readers and
such are made available. The ca se of the print-impaired is likely
to push recommendations to be more semantics based so that
both the screen readers and the user interfaces can react to user
contexts in a better way.

On the other hand, it can become a considerable effort for developers
to realize these recommendations in getting the web applications to be
sensitive to these users. One way to understand the generalized
context is by looking into how these issues can be addressed at the
level of Web application development frameworks.

Using a few examples, we intend to initiate a discussion on the nature
of generalizable solutions.